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Flowers of Anti-Martyrdom (Hardcover) (Dorian Geisler)

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Dorian Geisler's beguiling debut collection of poetry solves the problems of audacity—with audacity. A darkly uncanny romp through the lives of others, Geisler's fast-moving poetry and understated/maximalist aesthetic manage to convey a burgeoning world filled with strangers whose identities are playfully—sometimes diabolically—half-revealed. Flowers of Anti-Martyrdom is Kafka mixed with Tarantino; it's Invisible Cities—except instead of beautiful, imaginary cities, the poet introduces us to disconcertingly realistic humans in all their outlandish, casual perversity, exalted banality, and moral questionability.With Flowers, Geisler has written a collection that's open to as many readings as there are readers—and yet that's always a genuine, unambiguous delight.